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Preparation for Talent Connection Event - 26-02-2015

For several years Cisco has hosted a talent connection event giving students of the CCNA level the opportunity to meet and talk to Cisco partners. This years we expect quite a few job offerings for students at the right level.

The next TALENT CONNECTION EVENT takes place on 26 February 2015 at Cisco in Diegem.

In order to prepare your students for personally taking advantage of the career opportunities, the following points are necessary:

1. Students should have CCNA level competences (or higher)
2. Students register online before 5 February:
   http://talentbelgium2015.netacad.eu
3. Students email their CV to Cisco before 5 February: [email protected]
4. Students work through online learning materials to improve their knowledge of the Cisco product portfolio and enhance their business skills
   Choices: Online Learning Materials
5. Optionally, students take part in a Packet Tracer (PT) competition to show their technical and troubleshooting skills. More information will follow soon.

For more information read the presentation:  Download TCE2015_BiASC

You can also view the Webex recording: Play recording (15 min 0 sec)
The second part of the recording is in English

 

Preparatory Online Training for TALENT CONNECTION EVENT

IMPRESS YOUR FUTURE EMPLOYER AND GET A CERTIFICATE for accomplishing the training!

We advise every attendant for CISCO TALENT CONNECTION EVENT on 26 FEBRUARY 2015 to prepare well for the event, e.g. by studying the learning materials of their own choice from the list below ...

HOW
Step 1 – Request a CCO ID on www.cisco.com.
Step 2 – Associate yourself with BiASC as your Cisco partner
Step 3 – Go to www.cisco.com/go/pec and login
Step 4 – Search for a training within a domain of your interest. 
Step 5 – Some trainings require a test to officially obtain the certification.

LIST OF TRAINING MATERIALS

Cisco partners will find you better suited if you have more than only technical skills. That's we propose the following business oriented training.

• Focus on Business Outcomes: Cisco Sales Essentials v6.0***
  GET CERTIFIED FOR THIS COURSE - VOUCHERS AVAILABLE
• Here is an introduction to the Sales Essentials Course: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2014/12/cisco-sales-expert-.html

Other optional learning materials

• Cisco Internet of Things

CERTIFICATION

Reach out to BiASC if interested. We have a limited number of free certifiaction vouchers***!

 

 

Cisco Sales Expert

We advise students who registered for the Cisco Talent Connection event at Cisco Diegem on 26 February to improve their chances by studying Cisco's product portfolio and Cisco's approach of the market.

Cisco Sales Essentials v6.0 is a 5 and half hour course that provides Partner account managers (AMs) and Sales Engineers (SEs) with the introductory information they need to sell Cisco solutions. The Partner AM and SE will earn the Cisco Sales Expert designation by passing the Cisco Sales Expert exam that is associated with this course. This course covers Cisco Partnering and Profitability, Business Transformation, Cisco Architectures (Borderless Networks, Collaboration, Video, Data Center/Virtualization/Cloud), Small Business, Services, Cisco Capital, Partner Resources and Networking Basics.

Here are some extracts from the course

 

Introduction to Cybersecurity v1.1

DESCRIPTION
Introduces the importance of Cybersecurity and current trends in industry
Content organized in 8 modules that include presentations and panel discussions with industry experts

FEATURES
Activities, videos and additional resources for students to explore
Assessments include a pre-test, 8 quizzes, 1 final exam
Estimated time to complete: 13 hours

TARGET AUDIENCE
Introductory course for students interested in  and introduction to cybersecurity and learning about the trends of cybersecurity in the market today
No previous knowledge required

AVAILABILITY
Launch: 8 Jan 2015
Languages: English
Instructor-led and Self-enroll course

 

Source: Golabl IPD Week January 2015

Technopreneur Series

DESCRIPTION
Introduces entrepreneurship leveraging technologies.
Show learners how others have succeeded through experience-sharing and real-life success stories
Discuss business skills to enhance employability and opportunity
Teaser to and complements “Entrepreneurship” course

FEATURES
A serias of 1-hr video recordings of instructional content (15 mins) and experience-sharing (45mins) for each module/episode
Assessments include 1 quiz and 1 survey per module
Estimated time to complete: 1 hour / module, total 8 hrs for full Series

TARGET AUDIENCE
Students who are exploring to be an Entprepreneur/Technopreneur
Existing Entrepreneurship course students seeking insights from industry thought leaders
No previous knowledge required

AVAILABILITY
Launch target date for Module 1 : Jan 2015
Languages: English
Self-enroll course

 

Source: Golabl IPD Week January 2015

New Topics in CCNP R&S v. 7.0

CCNP ROUTE
Cisco Express Forwarding (CEF)
RIPv2 and RIPng, EIGRP for IPv6, OSPFv3
DMVPN and Easy Virtual Networking (EVN)
CCNP SWITCH
Switching Database Manager(SDM)
VTP
CCNP TSHOOT
Troubleshoot EIGRP for IPv6, OSPFv3

Cisco Packet Tracer Mobile 1.0.2 (Android)

Packet Tracer for Android tablets!
Optimized for screens with a minimum size of 7 inches
Supports multiple Android tablets with ARM CPUs running Android 4.1 or later
46 reference topologies included
Simulation engine is based on Packet Tracer 6.1
Users must be authenticated by logging into the Cisco Networking Academy® Cisco NetSpace™ application before the Packet Tracer Mobile app is activated
After the initial authentication, an Internet connection is NOT required.
Download today from Google Play!

 

Source: Golabl IPD Week January 2015

Cisco Packet Tracer 6.2 (Desktop)

Plans to release soon
New devices: Cisco 819 router, cell tower, CO server, sniffer
Improved physical view: You can add devices directly into physical view
Improved HTTP server: Supports JavaScript and CSS, also supports import files via FTP server inside PT
Improved IOS command support

Source: Golabl IPD Week January 2015

About Packet Tracer

Packet Tracer is software for educational use, it can not and will not replace real equipment
Packet Tracer does not contain any code from Cisco IOS® , it simulates the behavior of network equipment
Packet Tracer does not support all IOS commands, it can support most of the commands used in CCNA R&S
Packet Tracer can“pause the network state”, it is a good tool to demonstrate the state of networks
Packet Tracer allows multiple users to work on the same topology
Packet Tracer can help instructors quickly demonstrate anetwork topology in the class

Source: Golabl IPD Week January 2015

Academy Day at Cisco Live - Milan - 26 January 2015

Here is the link for Academy Day at Cisco Live, Milan, on 26 January 2015

https://www.cvent.com/d/prqmtq?lang=en&sms=7&cn=qKkspsKsR0mCxZtgnFnxDg

• When Monday, January 26, 2015
• Time 10:00am-4:00pm, Central Europe Time
• Where Online- Live Streaming

CORNING NETWORK IQ INSTRUCTOR TRAINING - FEB 2015 - BRUSSELS

An instructor course for teachers who would like to teach fiber optic networks will be organized from 18 to 20 February at the Odisee University College in Brussels.

To enroll in the Corning Network IQ Instructor Training, please fill in this form: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2015/01/corning-network-iq-instructor-training-feb-2015-brussels.html

CORNING NETWORK IQ INSTRUCTOR TRAINING - FEB 2015 - BRUSSELS

The Internet is on fire | Mikko Hypponen | TEDxBrussels

Computer security expert Mikko Hypponen explains how the ways you use the Internet affects your privacy, security and more. At TEDxBrussels, he gives a talk that challenges all of us to think before we click.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKe-aO44R7k

EMC Academic Alliance Courses - Information Storage - Cloud - Big Data

BiASC has agreed to function as the regional academy for the Benelux and will support educational institutions that are interested in teaching one or more of the following courses.

• Course 1 - Information Storage and Management
• Course 2 - Cloud Infrastructure and Services
• Course 3 - Backup Recovery Systems and Architecture
• Course 4 - Data Science and Big Data Analytics

More details: http://honim.typepad.com/biasc/2015/01/emc-academic-alliance-course-materials.html

EMC Academic Alliance Course Materials

Here is the list of courses that will be provided in the same Canvas environment, which is also used by Cisco Networking Academy. BiASC will function as the regional academy in the Benelux and will support educational institutions that are interested in teaching one or more of the following courses.

• Course 1 - Information Storage and Management
• Course 2 - Cloud Infrastructure and Services
• Course 3 - Backup Recovery Systems and Architecture
• Course 4 - Data Science and Big Data Analytics

Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon

When first discovered in 2010, the Stuxnet computer worm posed a baffling puzzle. Beyond its unusually high level of sophistication loomed a more troubling mystery: its purpose. Ralph Langner and team helped crack the code that revealed this digital warhead's final target -- and its covert origins. In a fascinating look inside cyber-forensics, he explains how.

 

R. Langner, Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon,
TED 2011, Youtube, March 2011, 10:37
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS01Hmjv1pQ
URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon

History’s first true cyber weapon

A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet’s Creators Tried to Achieve

There is only one reason why we publish this analysis: To help asset owners and governments protect againstsophisticated cyber-physical attacks as they will almost definitely occur in the wake of Stuxnet. Public discussion of the subject and corporate strategies on how to deal with it clearly indicate widespread misunderstanding of the attack and its details, not to mention a misunderstanding of how to secure industrial control systems in general. For example, post-Stuxnet mitigation strategies like emphasizing the use of air gaps,anti-virus, and security  patches are all indications of a failure to understand how the attack actually worked.

To read the full analysis go to

R. Langner, To Kill a Centrifuge - A Technical Analysis of What Stuxnet’s Creators Tried to Achieve, Langner Group, PDF, November 2013, 36 p.
URL http://www.langner.com/en/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/To-kill-a-centrifuge.pdf

Video by Ralph Langer

R. Langner, Cracking Stuxnet, a 21st-century cyber weapon,
TED 2011, Youtube, March 2011, 10:37
URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/ralph_langner_cracking_stuxnet_a_21st_century_cyberweapon

Malware - The Next Generation

Malware before and after Stuxnet

M. Hypponen, Governments As Malware Authors The Next Generation,
Black Hat USA 2014, Youtube, 29 SEP 2014, 54:55
URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txknsq5Z5-8